The dictionary of portrait painters in Britain up to 1920
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Author
Contributions
- Cutten, Mervyn. - Contributor
Publication
1997 - Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England
Language
English
Word Count
125,500 words, Guess
Page Count
502 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL21105158M
- ISBN-101851491732
- OCLC Control Number36955200
- OCLC Control Numberdictionaryofbrit0000stew
- Library of Congress Control Number97121593
and 3 more
- LibraryThing9419603
- WikidataQ21467403
- Goodreads1366926
Classifications
- LCCND1314 .S72 1997
Description
This dictionary examines over 5000 British portrait artists providing biographical information. It combines information needed by collectors, dealers, museums, libraries and auction houses. Research has been gleaned from parish registers, monumental inscriptions, census returns, marriage licences, wills, dictionaries and contemporary accounts. Engravers of the artists' work are also listed to assist researchers idenitfy anonymous sitters and provide art historians with an indication of the contemporary availability of an artist's compositions. The illustrations have been carefully selected in order to show as many rarely seen unpublished works as possible.
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500 p
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Genres
- Biography
- Dictionaries.
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